March of Life breaking the veil of silence

70 years after the mass deportations, massacres, and death marches, almost 300 international participants joined the March of Life, which followed the route of the historic death marches in November 1944, Hungary. The event organized by Jobst Bittner, founder of the non-denominational Charismatic church and ministry TOS of Tubingen, Germany. Among the participants were numerous Hungarian and German descendants of members of the Wehrmacht or the SS and the Arrow Cross Party (Hungarian Nazi movement), who had been involved in the Holocaust in Hungary. They had come to break the veil of silence covering their forebears’ guilt and asked Holocaust survivors present forgiveness for the crimes of their forefathers. György Konrád, author, who lived through the Holocaust as a child, also attended the event.